LOUISVILLE, KY. With the new 5700XE Class 8 highway tractor in the background, Michael Jackson officially handed over the general manager reins at Western Star Truck Sales Inc. – a division of Daimler ...

Not long ago it would have been a stretch of the imagination to use the words Western Star and aerodynamic in the same sentence. Today, they might be considered synonymous. The company claims its new ...

For Western Star general manager Michael Jackson, the challenge is straight-forward: Preserve and enhance the niche truck-maker’s products in such a way that allows you to leverage the full bounty of ...

Daimler Trucks North America is discontinuing production of the Western Star 5700 XE on-highway truck, but it said it will soon announce a successor product. According to published reports, some ...

It’s not impractical to assume that when aero engineers get an eyeful of Western Star’s 5700XE, they flinch. It’s not exactly your cookie cutter aerodynamic truck, but that’s exactly what makes this ...

Western Star Truck Sales has added another new option for personalizing the 5700XE. The Western Star factory-installed Phantom 2 Graphics package features new, modular components for more ...

Forget what you think you know about Western Star. The proud niche-player that made its name with tough, long-nosed conventional designs introduced its new, aerodynamic 5700XE highway tractor at a ...

LOUISVILLE, Ky. — Western Star Truck Sales is featuring two models of the new 5700XE Class 8 highway tractor at the Mid-America Trucking Show. Headquartered in Fort Mill, South Carolina, Western Star ...

Western Star presented the Owner-Operators Independent Drivers Association (OOIDA) with a new Western Star 5700XE Thursday at the truck maker’s 50th anniversary event in Phoenix. The tractor, the ...

This story appears in the Sept. 15 print edition of Transport Topics. HENDERSON, Nev. — Daimler’s Western Star unit launched a new highway tractor offering improved fuel efficiency while maintaining ...

Western Star’s 5700XE might just be everything to everyone. It’s a big Classic-styled truck, but with second-to-one <<one is the correct word>> aerodynamics. The company claims the 5700XE is 14% more ...